Kombiz Lavasany

This is an escalation by DHS.

Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.

Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime

"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."

Dublin Teachers Association Asks 3.5 percent increase in health benefits Reduction in class sizes Cost-of-living adjustments Protect elementary counselor jobs

700+ teachers are on strike in Dublin after the district rejected their offer and did not offer a counter.

My step-mother was a public school teacher at Dublin Elementary for years.

It's a tough job and teachers deserve our support. Dublin teachers have mine.

WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING HIM TO STOP THE DEPORTATION OF IRANIANS THAT HAPPENED A WEEK BEFORE THE FUCKING WAR STARTED. Including a gay couple.

he's a psychopath

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

Some states are going to have school vouchers. I have tried to warn about them—the problems are all predictable and predicted.

But now that they are here, some of those problems are entirely correctable.

More oversight of taxpayer dollars goes a long way.

Death threat

Event was taken offline and presented on zoom.

A month and a half ago, when the organization that I sit on the board of was doing a panel at Harvard was doing a panel on the Israel, Iran and the Middle East I got an email along with participants with a real, honest-to-god terroristic threat about what would happen if the event went on.

"Trita Parsi, Lobbyist for Iran" - by Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic. Nov. 13, 2009

In the Atlaantic a few months after the green uprising, where i had worked closely with Trita to get persian language news, sources out of Iran about the regime's crackdown to the press list I had built while working at the DNC. Then as now, it was a crime to be a "lobbyist for the regime"

You'll be surprised that Jeff Goldberg used to go around claiming Iranian Americans who advocated for talks with Iran to deal with nuclear program and other issues like their behavior were lobbyists for the Iranian regime. A slur regularly promoted by his close friend Eli "Chalabi stenographer" Lake

Trade-Offs: Taxpayers in the United States and Iran War - $1 Billion/ Day Use NPP's Trade-Off tool to reallocate taxpayer dollars.

Iran War is costing taxpayers $1Billion/Day. Here's what that $ could have paid for instead:
3.88mil Elementary School Teachers for 1yr
2.73mil Registered Nurses for 1yr
21.24mil Head Start Slots for 1yr
9.77mil Borrowers Receiving Forgiveness for 1yr
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one of the cruel things the Iranian gov't does is jail dissidents in exile. Sending them across the country away from family and support network. a practice we have very openly copied for immigrants.

UPDATE: Sunny, a U.S. citizen, is on her way home after being shipped across state lines overnight.

How the hell did this happen?

Press conference tomorrow at Broadview, where we will hear Sunny’s side of the story. More details soon.

Justice Department releases missing Epstein files related to Trump : The NPR Politics Podcast It was another busy week in Washington. We discuss Kristi Noem getting fired from her position as Secretary of Homeland Security and the new release of missing Epstein files related to President Trump...

who is going to be the last soldier or civilian who dies because Donald Trump and Republicans are covering up Trump's history as a predator? www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

The way this works is that the U.S. now has to put troops on the ground, invade, overthrow the Iranian government and then nation-build OR Iran is going to withstand this aerial barrage and come back stronger.

That's the position these idiots have put us in. They've endangered the whole world.

Why Target is at the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Great interview on why boycott Target. workdaymagazine.org/why-target-i...

Gosh. This same Dr. Drew? What a surprise.

www.techdirt.com/2020/04/06/d...

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

Trump’s Iran War is as unpopular as the Iraq war was…in 2014.

“No president in modern polling history has launched a major military operation with the public already against him.”

Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries) This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...

Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire.
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Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran The president’s private comments have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purpos...

And here we go …

“Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations.”

#BushLite

I think Hegseth should be worried.

DHS feeds talking points to Republicans as opposition to ICE warehouses swells DHS sent talking points to Republican officials to promote migrant detention centers while communities complained about a lack of transparency.

Local Republicans are getting slammed so hard on ICE warehouse plans that DHS is having to feed them talking points

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Louisville and Lexington players paused the USL Championship season opener for 60 seconds after kickoff, letting the clock run without play. A fearless show of unity from the USL Players Association as negotiations reach a critical stage. It’s time for the league to act. #StandUpForStandards

A family fled violence. A family sought refuge. A family followed the law—and was punished for it. Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez came to this country not to defy its laws but to seek their protection. She came not as a burden but as a mother. She came not to take from America but to ask of it the one thing it has always promised the world: that those who are persecuted may find here a sanctuary, and those who follow the rules may find here a home.

I am the father of two sons. I know what it is to want for them nothing more than safety and nothing less than justice. Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez wanted no more and no less for hers. She fled a violent man. She protected her children. She obeyed every instruction given to her. What more could this nation have asked of her?

A Hayward mother and her two small children were deported to Colombia without due process and without her eldest son's assistive hearing device.

This is cruelty practiced in our name. Read my full statement here.

> @benstiller.redhour.com